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Posted by nwparker 1 day ago

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents(github.com)
Our team lives in Slack, but we don’t have access to the Slack MCP and couldn’t find anything out there that worked for us, so we coded our own agent-slack CLI

  * Can paste in Slack URLs
  * Token efficient
  * Zero-config (auto auth if you use Slack Desktop)
Auto downloads files/snippets. Also can read Slack canvases as markdown!

MIT License

26 points | 5 comments
Wuzzy 14 minutes ago|
I believe in an MCP-less future of agent-service interactions and have recently submitted this general alternative (which also supports Slack) based on curl: https://github.com/imbue-ai/latchkey

With that said, a specialized tool like this will almost certainly work better if Slack is the only service you want your agents to interact with. I like that the auth is transparent.

Hansenq 50 minutes ago||
Oh this is smart! Reading where Slack stores the local data in your filesystem instead of using their API/MCP (which they charge for).

Very clever; similar to OpenAI launching Atlas when websites start blocking bot requests--just build your own browser so your bot becomes an actual user.

BlueOrigin50 1 day ago||
Oh nice. I just installed and it works pretty well. It wasn't able to find the user names on the thread though.
nwparker 1 day ago|
You could ask it to convert the names (and it would), since it uses the slack internal userIds

But I will add a flag to do for `slack message read/list`, since it makes sense.

slopusila 1 hour ago||
how about support for "auth import-token" so you dont need to keep SLACK_TOKEN in env